As the summer comes to an end, I want to share a special part of my spiritual practice with all of you out there – millions, even billions of you – in search of inner peace and the wisdom of the zodiac or whichever comes first.

Just before I left for this summer in Nepal, I was at an end of season party with my soccer team in West Hartford and we got to talking about a new fad in Connecticut: goat yoga. This is a thing where you do yoga while baby goats run about jumping up on your back and snuggling your bum.

RIGHT????

That very weekend my friend Sam was planning to attend goat yoga, but I couldn’t go because, alas, I was headed instead to Nepal. But then, on the plane to Nepal, I got to thinking. Nepal lacks numerous amenities such as proper butter, a fully functional government, rural dental care, and Pandora. But goats are not a problem. So then I got to thinking more, and I what I thought was, let’s be open minded and work from a strengths perspective.

This proved to be fairly straightforward. I started with a beginner practice:

Adorable Bunny Yoga.

The fan response was prompt:

I proceeded without hesitation. I am a very focused person when I need to be.

Baby Chick yoga

French Bulldog At Sunset

Pairs Kitten Yoga

The Rooster

(this posture, which is excellent for improving the flexibility of the tongue to reach the tip of the nose, was immediately preceded by me trying to catch the rooster)

Preparation for Rooster Pose

A Herd Of Sheep Crossing a Road in Upper Mustang Yoga

Also, meditations on being very very still:

Farm Pose After Dental Camp

Pondering the impossible:

How is there a Dalmation in Nepal Pose

Ironic Yoga, very powerful in the Year of the Carrot:

I tire of you appropriating us in to your yoga names just because you’re humans withering stare dog

And finally,

Goat Yoga

Goats Doing People Yoga

NAMASTE, HUMANS!!!

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Laura, I love, love these snaps of you and the other animals (and the accompanying message) and will post this to FB when I return home (from the west coast, where my brother and I had an excellent eclipse experience—no crowds, no clouds, no wildfires, no traffic. Hwy 26, near Ironside, Oregon—the perfect place. Xo J